GUI file converter app and its commands

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Re: GUI file converter app and its commands

#61 Post by TimothySimon »

SwampRabbit wrote: Sat Sep 25, 2021 12:53 pm Finding (or creating) a matrix of file conversion tools and what they can convert might help identify the “biggest bang for the buck” as they say or identify if say a dozen small dependencies can do the job. Having a matrix like this in the GitHub README or GitHub Wiki of you start one… would be useful to users too.
Can anyone help us out on a matrix (graph) like this -- X can be converted to Y (with tool Z).
Where X and Y are file formats (extensions) and Z is a conversion tool (like ffmpeg, imagemagick's convert command, libreoffice etc.,).
SwampRabbit wrote: Sat Sep 25, 2021 12:53 pm What can LibreOffice convert that pandoc can’t?
Input formats that pandoc doesn't support (AFAIK):
abw zabw swf pmd pm3 pm4 pm5 pm6 p65 cwk ase agd fhd kth key numbers pages pdb dxf cdr cmx cgm dif dbf emf fb2 gpl gnm gnumeric hwp plt jtd jtt wk1 wk3 wk4 wks 123 pct met xls xlw xlt xlsx iqy xlsx pxl psw pot pub wps wks wdb wri vsd pgm pbm ppm ods fods odp fodp odg fodg odb sxw stw sxc stc sxi sti sxd std sxm pcx pcd psd qxp wb1 wq1 wq2 sgv 602 sgf rls ras svm slk tga uof uot uos uop wmf wpd wps xbm xpm zmf

Output formats that pandoc doesn't support (spreadsheets, presentations, drawings etc.,):
xlsx ods odp odg odb xls etc.,

Pandoc is mainly about Markup, Tex etc., while LO is mainly about Text documents, Presentations, Spreadsheets, Drawings etc., (more useful for the common man than Markup, Tex etc.,).

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